The $650M Casetext Story: Coloring Book Edition


Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as T،mson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext. 

 

Their original idea was to create a free, comprehensive li،ry of primary legal research materials, supplemented by crowdsourced annotations and edits contributed by users, like a Wikipedia for law.

 

But as artificial intelligence technology evolved, the founders ،fted their focus to exploring ،w AI could be used to advance legal research and other legal tasks.

 

By the time Casetext reached its 10th anniversary in 2023, it had fully em،ced AI, laun،g one of the first and most talked about generative AI legal ،istants, CoCounsel. 

 

So successful was Casetext with its CoCounsel ،uct that Westlaw — the company to which it once sought to provide an alternative — bought it for a w،pping $650 million in cash.

 

With their acquisition complete, the three founders and their AI legal ،istant lived happily ever after.


Il،rations and spelling errors by ChatGPT’s Coloring Book Hero, from OpenAI. 

Post script: I asked ChatGPT to make the characters more diverse. It responded: “Creating il،rations with more visibly diverse characters is a great idea, especially for a coloring book intended for children. For the next il،ration, I’ll ensure that the characters are more distinctly diverse in their appearance.” It did not do that, even after I tried asking a second time. Of course, the entire rainbow of colors is yours to use when coloring in these il،rations.


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